Tag: rendezvous and proximity operations
Katalyst scraps Swift reboost, settles for a close flyby instead
Katalyst's Link spacecraft will skip its planned grapple-and-boost of NASA's Swift telescope after attitude-control trouble.
Rendezvous tech blurs the line between satellite service and attack
A new analysis warns that dual-use rendezvous and proximity operations leave the rules of space war dangerously ambiguous.
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